Alongside Sergey Zhukov,[2] Potekhin was a member of the successful pop/techno band Hands Up!

in 2006, Potekhin continued with a solo music career and produced acts like Superboys, and J Well (the former member of Discomafia).

Between 2006 and 2008, he released 3 collections of dance music on the website "potexinstyle.ru", that included young acts Demo, Turbomoda, and Planka Etc.

Potekhin has also produced Trek/Blues led by Vladimir Luchnikov, the lead singer of Turbomoda and Svoi of Ruslan Achkinadze.

Aleksey is the older brother of Andrei Potekhin, ex-member of Turbomoda and Revolvers.